Reading – Grade 6
Outcome / 4-Mastery / 3-Proficient / 2-Adequate / 1-Limited
Comprehension
CR6.1: Read, comprehend and respond to a variety of texts that address social responsibility, efficacy, and identity.
CR6.6: Read and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation of grade-appropriate texts
CR6.7: Read independently and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of information texts with some specialized language
CR6.8: Read Grade 6 appropriate texts to increase fluency and expression / Reads a variety of texts and demonstratesinsightful literal and inferentialcomprehension through:
  • Comprehensive summaries
  • In-depth explanation of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
  • Providing rich and detailed evidence
  • Making sophisticated personal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
  • Providing perceptive inferences
  • Providing insightful support of opinions
  • Compelling interpretation of author’s message and obvious themes
  • Perceptive recognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
  • Precisely identifying point of view in narrative
  • Perceptive analysis and evaluation the author’s message
  • Articulating multiple purposes for reading
Reads orally ( more than 160wpm) and silently (more than 210 wpm) with captivating expression / Reads a variety of texts and demonstratesliteral and inferential comprehension through:
  • Accurate summaries
  • Complete and accurate explanations of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
  • Providing relevant evidence
  • Making explicit personal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
  • Providinglogical inferences
  • Providing convincingsupport for opinions
  • Logical interpretation of author’s message and obvious themes
  • Accuraterecognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
  • Accurately identifying point of view in narrative
  • Logical analysis and evaluation of the author’s message
  • Reading with a clear purpose in mind
Reads orally( 120-160 wpm) and silently(160 - 210 wpm) with expression / Reads a variety of texts and demonstratesliteral comprehension through:
  • General summaries
  • Partial explanations of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
  • Providing basic evidence
  • Make predictablepersonal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
  • Providing obvious inferences
  • Providing predictable support of opinions
  • Basic interpretation author’s message and obvious themes
  • Simplistic recognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
  • Partially identifying point of view in narrative
  • Superficial analysis and evaluation of the author’s message
  • Identifying obvious purposes for reading
Reads orally ( 90-119 wpm) and
Silently (119- 159 wpm) with straightforward expression. / Reads a variety of texts and demonstratespartial comprehension through:
  • Incomplete summaries
  • Confusing explanation of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
  • Providing little or no evidence
  • Making vague personal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
  • Providing weak inferences
  • Providing vague support of opinions
  • Questionable interpretation of author’s message and obvious themes
  • Vague recognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
  • Inability to identify point of view in narrative
  • Undeveloped analysis and evaluation of the author’s message
  • Being unaware of the variety of purposes for reading
Oral and silent reading of grade level text is tenuous impeding fluency and expression.
Use of Strategies
CR6.2: Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning Before, During, and After reading / BEFORE
Skillfully and insightfully:
  • Considers, activates, and builds prior knowledge
  • Asks questions
  • Previews text
  • Anticipates message the author’s message
  • Predicts what text will be about
  • Sets purpose
DURING
Skillfully and insightfully:
  • Connects and constructs meaning
  • Notes key ideas and what supports them
  • Constructs mental images
  • Makes, confirms, and adjusts predictions
  • Makes, confirms, and adjusts inferences and draws conclusion
  • Ask questions and self-monitor comprehension
  • Adjusts rate or strategy
AFTER
Skillfully and insightfully:
  • Recalls, paraphrases, summarizes, and synthesizes
  • Reflects and interprets
  • Evaluates and responds critically
  • Evaluates craft and techniques
  • Responds personally with support from text
  • Reads again to deepen understanding and pleasure
/ BEFORE
Appropriately:
  • Considers, activates, and builds prior knowledge
  • Asks questions
  • Previews text
  • Anticipates message the author’s message
  • Predicts what text will be about
  • Sets purpose
DURING
Appropriately:
  • Connects and constructs meaning
  • Notes key ideas and what supports them
  • Constructs mental images
  • Makes, confirms, and adjusts predictions
  • Makes, confirms, and adjusts inferences and draw conclusion
  • Ask questions and self-monitors comprehension
  • Adjusts rate or strategy
AFTER
Appropriately:
  • Recalls, paraphrases, summarizes, and synthesizes
  • Reflects and interprets
  • Evaluates and responds critically
  • Evaluates craft and techniques
  • Responds personally with support from text
  • Reads again to deepen understanding and pleasure
/ BEFORE
Simplistic attempts to:
  • Consider, activate, and build prior knowledge
  • Ask questions
  • Preview text
  • Anticipate message the author’s message
  • Predicts what text will be about
  • Set purpose
DURING
Simplistic attempts to:
  • Connect and construct meaning
  • Note key ideas and what supports them
  • Construct mental images
  • Make, confirm, and adjust predictions
  • Make, confirm, and adjust inferences and draw conclusion
  • Ask questions and self-monitor comprehension
  • Adjust rate or strategy
AFTER
Simplistically attempts to:
  • Recall, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize
  • Reflect and interpret
  • Evaluate and respond critically
  • Evaluate craft and techniques
  • Respond personally with support from text
  • Read again to deepen understanding and pleasure
/ BEFORE
Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to:
  • Consider, activate, and build prior knowledge
  • Ask questions
  • Preview text
  • Anticipate message the author’s message
  • Predict what text will be about
  • Set purpose
DURING
Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to:
  • Connect and construct meaning
  • Note key ideas and what supports them
  • Construct mental images
  • Make, confirm, and adjust predictions
  • Make, confirm, and adjust inferences and draw conclusion
  • Ask questions and self-monitor comprehension
  • Adjust rate or strategy
AFTER
Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to:
  • Recall, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize
  • Reflect and interpret
  • Evaluate and respond critically
  • Evaluate craft and techniques
  • Respond personally with support from text
  • Read again to deepen understanding and pleasure

Cues & Conventions
CR6.3 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/ morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and confirm meaning when reading. / Skillfully and insightfully recognizes, comprehends and explains: / Appropriatelyrecognizes, comprehends and explains: / Simplisticallyrecognizes, comprehends and explains: / Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to recognize, comprend and explain:
For example: / Pragmatic
Appropriatelyrecognizes and explains the:
  • Function and purpose of texts
  • Use of language and language register
  • Author’s purpose and point of view
Textual
Appropriatelyrecognizes and explains how structures and features of texts work to shape understanding including:
  • Form/genre
  • Common organizational patterns
  • Artistic devices
  • Elements of texts
  • Text features
Syntactical
Appropriately recognizes and comprehends sentence structures:
  • Simple sentences
  • Compound sentences
  • Modified clauses
  • Varied sentences beginnings
  • Capitalization and punctuation
  • Word order in a sentence
Semantic/Lexical/Morphological
Appropriately recognizes and comprehends:
  • Words that are appropriate for audience purpose and context
  • Connotation
  • Words used figuratively and for imagery
  • Words by using context, prefixes, suffixes, root words and reference tools
Graphophonic
Appropriately recognizes and explains:
  • Word families
  • Sound-symbol patterns